Sunday, September 20, 2015

Adictox are the first band to play Toronto who come from Cuba. They come from the center of Cuba in a place called Santa Clara. Solidarity Rock has been working hard at bringing them here and their first show was tonight at Coalition T.O. We had a chance to speak with the band through an interpreter earlier this afternoon. Here is that interview.

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

The Strike are an oi band, originally from Cannich, which is the Highlands of Scotland some 30 clicks outside of Inverness. Significant to the punk scene they wrote some of the greatest punk anthems which were brought to life on a series of oi compilations. They are particularly known for "Gang Warfare" and "Skinhead" which appeared on the "Strength Through Oi" comp. Garry Bushell first encouraged the band by listing one of their demoes in his top 10 oi list for Sounds Magazine and then by getting the, on this compilation. Fergus Macleod, the lead singer and bass player, goes into this story in the interview.

Fergus broke the Strike up in 1983 over musical differences. He moved to Toronto and then to Vancouver where he would form Emergency with Nick and Mike from the Subway Thugs. There is a great write up on Emergency found at Ghetto Rock which gives the background on the band and their recording history all while reviewing the full length that was released at the time "1234". Since then Longshot Music released two of the songs from an earlier demo as an ep. The band was able to record one of the Emergency's songs "What You Gonna Do".

More recently, Fergus re-located to Ontario and lives in Midland. He got in touch with Peter Lambert over some record trading. Peter started out drumming for NFG when they first started out and left around the glam phase of 63 Monroe. Peter moved to London England and played with many bands including the Angelic Upstarts. Peter recorded on their "Reason Why?" LP in 1983 and you can see his credits at this discogs page. Peter asked if Fergus was ever interested in starting up the band again and he was. Peter then sought out Chris Crash.

Chris Crash has his own interesting stories, but some of his history starts as far back as playing in Slander, which is one of Hamilton's first recorded punk bands. Chris would go on to play in the Hammer Boys, an all skin hardcore band. He runs a punk store called Crash Landing now, but was very familiar with the Strike's material. When Peter approached Chris about playing in the Strike, Chris couldn't believe it and started playing "Skinhead" on guitar to verify that it was the same band they were talking about. Peter knew he had the right guy for guitar. Randy from Rebel Time Records put us in touch with this new version of the Strike and after weeks of figuring out scheduling we were able to record this session. The Strike have played a show at This Ain't Hollywood. Tonight they recorded the following songs :

Sunday, September 6, 2015

Tonight's show features some theme sets, an interview with Ralph Alfonso about the upcoming Diodes gig, and a demo feature by Chokehold. You can listen to the show on the player above or take it with you as an MP3. BRUTE FORCE – WMC (Self-Released)THE JIM TABLOWSKI EXPERIENCE - Bill Murray Would Be Pissed (Crapoulet)PIERRE AND BASTIEN – Cancer (Pouet! Schallplatten)XAXAXA - 2 milioni trkalački kamenja (Moonlee)OPEN LETTERS - Bad Poise For Life (Kingfisher Bluez / Gipper Tore)UNFUN – Arson (Dead Broke)MALOKIO – Formiche (Self-Released)UNCLE RAY – Poison (Self-Released)THE AVENGERS – I Believe in Me (Dangerhouse)THE SLITS – I Heard It Through the Grapevine (Island)VICE SQUAD – Propaganda (Riot City)Ralph Alfonso – Interview (Live)THE DIODES - Time Damage (CBS)TEENAGE HEAD – Let It Show (Attic)THE SECRETS - All The Girls (Bomb)THE UGLY – Screw the System – (Ugly Pop)JOHN COOPER CLARKE – Innocents (Rabid)THE STRANGLERS – All Day and All of the Night45 GRAVE – Party Time (Enigma)THE GERMS – Lion's ShareHUGH DILLON AND SWAMP BABY - Someone's Gonna Die Tonight (Velvel)CIRCLE JERKS – Shit Hits the Fan (San Andreas)

I came across this old Chokehold demo that I didn't know existed and it is great. It is called “The Whole World is an Addiction”. Here is some of it....CHOKEHOLD – Insecurity (Self-Released)CHOKEHOLD – Bottom Line (Self-Released)CHOKEHOLD – We Stand Alone (Self-Released)CHOKEHOLD – Born to Die (Self-Released)CHOKEHOLD – Sign of Hate (Self-Released)CHOKEHOLD – Time to Say (Self-Released)CHOKEHOLD – For the Child (Self-Released)CHOKEHOLD – Everybody (Self-Released)

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SHOW LISTINGS

THURSDAY MARCH 15th @ Coalition T.O.

KING CANS

RECKLESS UPSTARTS

STREETLIGHT SAINTS

BARE BONES

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THURSDAY MARCH 29th @ Faith/Void

PROM NITE

PUCUMBER

RETIRED

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THURSDAY APRIL 12th @ Lee's Palace

JOHN COOPER CLARKE

SON OF DAVE

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FRIDAY APRIL 27th @ the Pheonix Theatre

PRLJAVO KAZALIŠTE (from Croatia)

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SUNDAY MAY 13th @ Lee's Palace

POWER TRIP

SHEER MAG

FURY

RED DEATH

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WEDNESDAY MAY 16th @ the Velvet Underground

THE MELVINS

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SATURDAY MAY 26th @ the Velvet Underground

INTEGRITY

BLOODLET

XIBALBA

LONGEST WAR

TOMB MOLD

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WEDNESDAY JUNE 13th @ the Velvet Underground

GBH

PINATA PROTEST

DIRTYWORK

If there is a show that you know about that isn't on this list, please forward it to us at equalizingxdistort@gmail.com.